Lot 313
  • 313

A pair of Frankenthal leaf-shaped dishes, circa 1765

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • porcelain
  • 20.9cm., 8 1/4 and 21.5cm., 8 1/2 in. long
crisply moulded and painted with small scattered flower sprigs, with rims edged in brown enamel, crowned CT marks in underglaze-blue,

Literature

West Horsley Place, Surrey, Inventory, 1938, Vol. 1, p.7, in the Morning Room; A 7½" Fankenthal leaf shape porcelain Dishes, painted with flowers.

Condition

One dish has an extended firing hairline crack to the rim which measures approximately 6cm long, and a short hairline crack to the footrim. Both with a loss to the small branch issuing from the handle. Each handle has a firing crack. Chips to rims.
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